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Leading the Way: Characteristics and Early Experiences of Selected Early Head Start Programs. Volume I: Cross-Site Perspectives

Ellen Eliason Kisker, John M. Love, Helen Raikes, Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Linda Rosenberg, Kathleen Coolahan and Lisa J. Berlin

Strategies for Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten: Toolkit for Districts, Schools, and Early Childhood Providers

Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz

Case Studies of Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants: Final Report

Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Jennifer O'Day, Beatrice Birman, Steven Hurlburt, Michelle Nayfack, Clare Halloran, Andrea Boyle, Seth Brown, Diana Mercado-Garcia, Rose Goff, Linda Rosenberg and Lara Hulsey

Wash For Life: Stage 2 Grantee Profiles

Clair Null, Jeremy Paley, Jamie McCasland, Jeremy Brecher-Haimson and Christina Phelps

After Two Years, Three Elementary Math Curricula Outperform a Fourth (In Focus Brief)

Roberto Agodini, Barbara Harris, Neil Seftor, Janine Remillard and Melissa Thomas

Expectations of Sustainability: What Do CKF Grantees and State Officials Predict Will Happen Once RWJF Funding Ends?

Beth Stevens and Sheila D. Hoag

The Early Experience of the Health Quality Partners Case Management Program

Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adult Education Programs: Findings from Recent Research

Mary T. Moore and Tim Silva

Charter Schools and the Public Interest

Philip Gleason and Helen Ladd

State of Arkansas and Hennepin County, Minnesota. Improving Participation in Food Stamps: Strategies and Challenges

Angela Merrill, Megan McHugh, Liz Schott and Julie Darnell

Mejores Inicios El Estado del Aprendizaje Temprano y Preparacin para el Kindergarten en East Yakima

Diane Paulsell, Kimberly Boller, Nikki Aikens, Martha Kovac and Patricia Del Grosso

Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) Evaluation: Interim Services and Impact Report (Executive Summary)

Arif Mamun, Ankita Patnaik, Michael Levere, Gina Livermore, Todd Honeycutt, Jacqueline Kauff, Karen Katz, AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Joseph Mastrianni and Brittney Gionfriddo

Maternal and Child Characteristics Associated with Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices

Kristy Hendricks, Ronette Briefel, Timothy Novak and Paula Ziegler

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 2 Video: USDA, FAS)

Eleanor Morefield, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

Practice Characteristics of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Physicians

Peter I. Buerhaus, Catherine M. DesRoches, Robert Dittus and Karen Donelan

National Survey of SSI Children and Families Data Collection and Survey Content

Susan Mitchell

Differences in Enrollee Outcomes Among Medicaid Managed Care Organizations

Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila Hoag

Using Payment Incentives to Improve Care for the Chronically Ill in Medicare: First Year Implementation of the Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration (MCMP)

Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Christopher Fleming, Brenda Natzke and Rachel Shapiro

Food Stamp Participants' Access to Food Retailers

James C. Ohls, Michael Ponza, Lorenzo Moreno, Amy Zambrowski and Rhoda Cohen

2012 Regional Partnership Grants to Increase the Well-Being of and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for Children Affected by Substance Abuse: Second Annual Report to Congress

Debra A. Strong, Sarah A. Avellar, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Megan Hague-Angus and Caroline Massad Francis

AB Demonstration: Recruitment, Process, and Impact Findings After One Year

David Wittenburg

Draft Medicaid Access Tool

Bridget Bernick

The Business Case for Pediatric Asthma Quality Improvement in Low-Income Populations: Examining a Provider-Based Pay-for-Reporting Intervention

Kristin L. Reiter, Kristin Andrews Lemos, Charlotte E. Williams, Dominick Esposito and Sandra B. Greene

Current and Future Sources of Health Insurance Coverage for Alabama Residents

Deborah Chollet, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell

Overview of the Independent Evaluation of CPC+

Various Authors

Does Medicare HMO Enrollment Cause Adverse Selection in Medigap?

Deborah Chollet and Adele Kirk

Usage of Policies and Practices Promoted by Race to the Top

Lisa Dragoset, Susanne James-Burdumy, Kristin Hallgren, Irma Perez-Johnson, Mariesa Herrmann, Christina Tuttle, Megan Hague Angus, Rebecca Herman, Matthew Murray, Corutney Tanenbaum and Cheryl Graczewski

Improving the Connectedness of Long-Term Care Providers: Cross Site Report

Beth Stevens, Bridget Lavin and Valerie Cheh

AAPOR Report on Big Data

Task Force Members Include: Lilli Japec, Frauke Kreuter, Marcus Berg, Paul Biemer, Paul Decker, Cliff Lampe, Julia Lane, Cathy O'Neil and Abe Usher

Logics of Freedom: Debating Religious Freedom Laws and Gay and Lesbian Rights

Emily Kazyak, Kelsy Burke and Mathew Stange

Disparities in the Healthfulness of School Food Environments and the Nutritional Quality of School Lunches

Sarah Bardin, Liana Washburn and Elizabeth Gearan

Addressing the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity Through School-Based Interventions: What Has Been Done and Where Do We Go from Here?

Karen E. Peterson and Mary Kay Fox

Selecting Policy Indicators and Developing Simulation Models for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs

Lisa Dragoset and Anne Gordon

Moving High-Performing Teachers: Implementation of Transfer Incentives in Seven Districts

Steven Glazerman, Ali Protik, Bing-ru Teh, Julie Bruch and Neil Seftor

Financial Challenges in New Integrated Care Programs: Deconstructing Rate-Setting Issues in Search of Solutions

James Verdier

Selecting and Testing Measures of Self-Regulation Skills Among Low-Income Populations

Tim Kautz and Quinn Moore

The Role of Goal Setting in Integrated Service Delivery

Mary Anne Anderson, Lindsay Ochoa, Margaret Sullivan and Nan Maxwell

Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education

Brian P. Gill, Jennifer S. Lerner and Paul Meosky

Random Assignment in Program Evaluation and Intervention Research: Questions and Answers

David Myers and Mark Dynarski

Trends in FSP Participation Rates: Focus on September 1997

Laura Castner and Scott Cody

A Guide to Disability Statistics from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Richard Burkhauser, Robert R. Weathers, Ii and Mathis Schroeder

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program: State Implementation Progress School Year 2010-2011

Quinn Moore, Kevin Conway and Brandon Kyler

Mortality Risk and Human Capital Investment: The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jane G. Fortson

Simulating Proposed Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Countable Resources and Categorical Eligibility

Karen Cunnyngham

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: POD BOND Comparison Report

Michael Levere, David Mann and David Wittenburg

An Exploration of Instructional Practices that Foster Language Development and Comprehension: Evidence from Prekindergarten through Grade 3 in Title I Schools

Hanley Chiang, Elias Walsh, Timothy Shanahan, Claudia Gentile, Alyssa Maccarone, Tiffany Waits, Barbara Carlson and Samuel Rikoon

The Transitional Employment Training Demonstration: Analysis of Program Impacts

Craig Thornton and Paul Decker

Cash and Counseling: An Innovative Model for Consumer Choice

Randall S. Brown

Prevalence of Unclaimed Prescriptions at Military Pharmacies

Dominick Esposito, Eric Schone, Thomas Williams, Su Liu, Karen CyBulski, Rita Stapulonis and Nancy Clusen

A More Diverse Teaching Force May Improve Educational Outcomes for Minority Students (Infographic)

Jeffrey Terziev

EpiCore: Harnessing a Network of Health Professionals for Verification of Public Health Events

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Brenna Rabel

Patterns of Older Americans' Health Care Utilization Over Time

Richard J. Manski, John F. Moeller, Haiyan Chen, Jody Schimmel, Patricia A. St. Clair and John Pepper

Iowa Families That Left TANF: How Are They Faring Two Years Later?

Jacqueline Kauff, Thomas Fraker and Julita Milliner-Waddell

Unexpected Arrivals: The Spillover Effects of Mid-Year Entry on Stable Student Achievement in New York City

Emilyn Ruble Whitesell, Leanna Stiefel and Amy Schwartz

PREP Performance Indicators: Youth Participants’ Characteristics and Outcomes

Lara Hulsey, Susan Zief and Lauren Murphy

Patient Dismissal by Primary Care Practices (Journal Article)

Ann O’Malley, Kaylyn Swankoski, Deborah Peikes, Jesse Crosson, Nancy Duda, Timothy Day and Shannon Heitkamp

Coordinating Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Early Experiences of 15 Demonstration Programs, Their Patients, and Providers (Appendix A)

Randall Brown, Jennifer Schore, Nancy Archibald, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes, Karen Sautter, Sherry Aliotta and Todd Ensor

Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS), October 1, 1997 Questionnaire

Mathematica Policy Research

Best Practices in Ensuring Data Quality in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)

Sarah Friese, Kathryn Tout and Gretchen Kirby

Income Security for Workers: A Stressed Support System in Need of Innovation

David C. Stapleton, Richard Burkhauser, Peiyun She, Robert R. Weathers and Gina A. Livermore

A Life Lesson in Civics: How Democracy Prep Charter Schools Boost Student Voting

Brian P. Gill, Charles Tilley, Emilyn Whitesell, Mariel Finucane, Liz Potamites and Sean Corcoran

Evaluation of the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) in the Chicago Public Schools: Study Design Report

Steven Glazerman, Allison McKie, Nancy Carey and Dominic Harris

A Research Agenda for Home-Based Child Care

Patricia Del Grosso, Juliet Bromer, Toni Porter, Christopher Jones, Ann Li, Sally Atkins-Burnett and Nikki Aikens

2014 Facts and Findings

Mathematica Policy Research

The Benefits and Costs of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program Under the 2002 Amendments

Sarah Dolfin and Peter Z. Schochet

Nutritional Quality of the Diets of US Public School Children and the Role of the School Meal Programs

Melissa A. Clark and Mary Kay Fox

Building Youth Life Skills: Lessons Learned on How to Design, Implement, Assess, and Scale Successful Programming

Swetha Sridharan, Poonam Ravindranath, Emma Pottinger and Clemencia Cosentino

Workforce Development for Comparative Effectiveness Research: Training Programs Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Kristin L. Geonnotti, Eugene C. Rich and Dominick Esposito

Effective Employment Services for Persons with Mental Retardation

Paul T. Decker and Craig Thornton

Proposed Criteria for Selecting the WIC Food Packages: A Preliminary Report of the Committee to Review the WIC Food Packages

Prepared by the Food Nutrition Board

Bridging the Information Gap between Citizens and Local Governments: Evidence from a Civic Participation Strengthening Program in Rwanda

Ali E. Protik, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Jacqueline Berman and Matt Sloan

The Struggle to Sustain Employment: The Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration

Anu Rangarajan and Tim Novak

Consumer and Provider Perspectives on Shared Decision Making: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed Literature

Nyna Williams and Chris Fleming

Testing the Replicability of a Successful Care Management Program: Results from a Randomized Trial and Likely Explanations for Why Impacts Did Not Replicate

G. Greg Peterson, Jelena Zurovac, Randall S. Brown, Kenneth D. Coburn, Patricia A. Markovich, Sherry A. Marcantonio, William D. Clark, Anne Mutti and Cara Stepanczuk

A Study of Federal Spending on Diabetes: An Opportunity for Federal Leadership in Diabetes

Marsha Gold and Ronette Briefel

Collective Action in Games as in Life: Experimental Evidence from Canal Cleaning in Haiti

Abbie Turiansky

The Impact of the Children's Health Initiative (CHI) of Santa Clara County on Medi-Cal and Healthy Families Enrollment

Christopher A. Trenholm, Sean Orzol and Crandall Peeler

Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Design Plan Supplement: Interim Outcomes Evaluation

Jenna Libersky, Su Liu, Laura Ruttner, Anna Collins, Jonathan Geller and Carol Irvin

Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Judith Wooldridge, Christopher Trenholm and Angela Gerolamo

Monitoring Local Safety-Net Providers: Do They Have Adequate Capacity?

Suzanne Felt-Lisk and Megan McHugh. Embry Howell

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

Touchpoints for Addressing Substance Use Issues in Home Visiting: Executive Summary of Phase 1 Final Report

Mynti Hossain, Lauren Akers, Patricia Del Grosso, Marisa Shenk, Michael Cavanaugh and Melissa Azur

Improving Employment Outcomes: Using Innovative Goal-Oriented Strategies in TANF Programs

Michelle Derr, Jonathan McCay and Jacqueline F. Kauff

Partners HealthCare ACO and the Three-Day Rule Waiver: Implementation Approach and Lessons Learned

Sonya Streeter

Measuring Physical Environments of Parks and Playgrounds: EAPRS Instrument Development and Inter-Rater Reliability

Brian E. Saelens, Lawrence D. Frank, Christopher Auffrey, Robert C. Whitaker, Hillary L. Burdette and Natalie Colabianchi

Thinking Through Evaluation Design Options

Barbara Devaney and Peter Rossi

Districts and Data: Developing Capacity for Effective Data Use

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky and Kristin Hallgren

Changes in Financial Aid and Student Enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities After the Tightening of PLUS Credit Standards

Matthew Johnson, Julie Bruch and Brian Gill

Study of Rhode Island's Uninsured: Current Costs and Future Opportunities

Deborah Chollet, Jeffrey Ballou, Allison Barrett and Thomas Bell

The Multiple Comparisons Problem in IES Impact Evaluations: Guidelines and Applications

Peter Z. Schochet and John Deke

What is Moral Sanctity? Sanctity in the Moral Worldviews of U.S. Political Liberals

Allison DiBianca Fasoli, Alexandra Saunders and Irene Andrade

Food Consumption Patterns of Young Preschoolers: Are They Starting Off on the Right Path?

Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth Condon, Ronette R. Briefel, Kathleen C. Reidy and Denise M. Deming

Who Will Enroll in Medicaid in 2014?: Lessons from Section 1115 Medicaid Waivers

Candace Natoli, Valerie Cheh and Shinu Verghese

Predictors of Long-Term Recovery in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: Data from a 22-Year Longitudinal Study

Debra L. Franko, Nassim Tabri, Aparna Keshaviah, Helen B. Murray, David B. Herzog, Jennifer J. Thomas, Kathryn Coniglio, Pamela K. Keel and Kamryn T. Eddy

Medicare Advantage in Rural Areas: Experience Under the MMA

Marsha Gold

Comparative Case Study Analysis of Five Clinical Practice Guidelines in Anesthesiology

Ruchir Karmali, Noa Sager and Anna Christensen

Analyzing the Association between Student Weight Status and School Meal Participation: Evidence from the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study

Sarah Bardin and Alice Ann Gola

Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: 2012

Ann M. Collins, Ronette Briefel, Jacob Alex Klerman, Gretchen Rowe, Anne Wolf, Christopher W. Logan, Anne Gordon, Carrie Wolfson, Ayesha Enver, Cheryl Owens, Charlotte Cabili and Stephen Bell

Final Evaluation of Increasing Economic and Social Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Vulnerable Women (EMPOWER) in Zambia

Ale Aponte, Evan Fantozzi, Amanda Beatty, Gelson Tembo, Chisangu Matome, Nathan Tembo and Evan Borkum

Rigorous Evaluation of Roads to Success: Design Report

Duncan Chaplin, Martha Bleeker and Claire Smither